Starlight - is a modest sculpture installation for Burning Man 2012. Seven twelve foot diameter icosahedron plywood stars will be placed on the playa mapping out the constellation Orion creating a "heaven on earth" effect. Ideally participants would own their own star. the starlights could be claimed, built and managed by multiple groups/individuals one per star or more? The stars could then be adorned, sheathed, painted, papier mache'd etc..to reflect the whim and individuality of the owner.

The basics:

My last serious offering was the Helix Spire in 2010.I'm based in Seattle.I am looking for help from people who are genuinely interested in producing art work. Builders, woodworkers, electricians, graffiti artists, painters etc...The prototype light will be built in coming weeks.The prototype light will be displayed at Critical Massivein July.Plywood patterns will be cut by cnc router.Materials include 1/4" marine plywood and simple plumbing pipe.Current rough estimated cost per star is $650+/-No I don't currently have funding but I have run the Kickstarter gauntlet before.Shipping appears to be dealt with.Yes I have tickets.Yes I missed you last year Ugly Dougly, Token, and Bucky. Maybe this year?Facebook page = Starlight

Well, it's getting real. Here are some of the cutouts for the test star from this past weekend. More to follow including the inevitable "kicksarter" plea . With any luck we'll have one of the stars constructed by the end of next weekend. Stay tuned or follow us on our fbook page. Cheers.

On other fronts we've decided to go with different but similar families of graphics for each star. Each star will also get a colorful paint-stain. Stars will be colored by type ie. red for red giant, blue for blue giant, purple for ultraviolet etc.....stars will be labeled by name as well.

masho wrote:On other fronts we've decided to go with different but similar families of graphics for each star. Each star will also get a colorful paint-stain. Stars will be colored by type ie. red for red giant, blue for blue giant, purple for ultraviolet etc.....stars will be labeled by name as well.

Ultraflashgun wrote:Hey man, UltraFlashGun.Tumblr.com @Ultraflashgun here. I had an unusual experience in Miami Beach related to your installation. I wrote a story about it called TsunaMiami, which left me with more questions than answers. All the Nazi Zombies here in New York here are full of empty. And I just tagged that asshole PeeCock Chopra as Al Franken's "Deep Thoughts" from vintage SNL. So my question to you is..................was it me, or the G?

Ultraflashgun wrote:Thanks bro. Just givin u props. I was just checking out your diagram of ur big ass fuckin star. It's cool as shit. It resembles a dude bisected along a coronal plane. It makes me wonder WTF is keeping me from experiencing events like this firsthand. I did some art direction in the past. More later, Peace out BroCheers